Videos posted in tribute to Tony Benn, 1925-2014

[Ken Burch]

Tony Benn, who died in London on Friday at age 88, was the most famous figure of the left wing of the British Labour Party(the wing that actually cared about labouring people and the poor, unlike most of its leaders). These are two songs that exemplify the spirit he lived for and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! piece on Benn from this Friday's program

Your Daughters And Your Sons-Tommy Sands (representing the great values Benn lived for and passes on to us now to defend)

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The World Turned Upside Down-Leon Rosselson

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(A song about the English radical tradition that Benn carried on)

[reformist2]

1. "If you can have full employment killing Germans, why can't you have full employment building school

That's really all there is to the economic problem - the problem of economics and poverty and wealth is really just a matter of political will.